Africa and International
Development
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Introduction
This page
contains links to organizations that offer work opportunities (many volunteer)
in Africa as well
as to organizations in the United States which focus on international development.
Volunteer Work
in Africa and Beyond
- Volunteers
For Peace International - Workcamps and Voluntary
Service
Provides an
opportunity for young people of all nationalities to work together on 2-3
week projects. VFP coordinates placement in over 800 camps in 36 countries.
- WorldTeach Home
Page
WorldTeach is a non-profit program of Harvard University's social service organization,
with opportunities for individuals to make a meaningful contribution to
international education by living and working as volunteer teachers in developing
countries.
- One World Volunteer Institute
The One World
Volunteer Institute in Norway (A Travelling
"Folk" High School) educates International volunteers to humanitarian projects
in Africa.
- Peacework
Volunteers
help meet the critical needs of marginalized communities in developing areas
by working with host organizations on existing self-development projects.
- Visions in Action
Visions in
Action is an international nonprofit organization offering 6 and 12 month
volunteer positions in five African countries and Mexico.
- Volunteer, Research and Work Opportunities
Links to organizations
presented National Consortium for Study
in Africa, African Studies Center, Michigan State University
- Volunteer and Community Tourism- Ecotourism Resource
Database
Programs range
from being structured very much like a standard tour package to long term
overseas volunteer programs, where you live and work in the local community
for up to two years, for local wages.
- Global Alliance for Africa
The home page
of Global Alliance for Africa- "Worldwide Partners for Health
Care in Africa." A unique, grassroots approach
to the many serious problems faced by health care workers on the African
continent.
- Global Services Corp
Provides cross-cultural learning and
community service adventures for adults in Tanzania and Thailand.
- Volunteer in South Africa wildlife parks
Learn all about
the animals you work with. This program will teach you about game tracking,
anti-poaching, identification of trees and much more.
- Work with AIDS orphans in South Africa
Lean on Me
aims to improve the lives of people infected or affected with HIV/AIDS.
They believe that the Lean on Me volunteers return to their countries as
ambassadors for AIDS awareness and the hardships Africans face.
- International Service and Travel
Center
ISTC
is a nationally-recognized center dedicated to pomoting international opportunities
and supporting individuals preparing for international experiences.
- Peace Corps: The Toughest Job You'll Ever Love!
As a Peace
Corps Volunteer, you'll make real differences in the lives of real people.
Whether you're teaching children the basics of math, science, and English
or working with a community to protect the local environment; whether you're
helping people stay healthy, expand their businesses, or grow more nutritious
food, you will help change and improve the human condition at the grassroots
level.
- World Volunteers
The World Guide to Humanitarian and Development
Volunteering
- Global Volunteer Network
The Global
Volunteer Network currently has volunteer opportunities available-a great
way to contribute to the global community and also fosters personal growth.
- Council on International Educational Exchange
CIEE's International Volunteer Projects enable you to work on short term,
team oriented projects overseas. Choose from over 800 projects in 32 countries.
- Concern America
Concern America is currently engaged in development projects in Mexico,
El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Guinea and Mozambique
- Habitat For Humanity
The Global Village program is a series of short-term trips designed to provide
an educational and spiritual experience within a cross-cultural environment.
- Health Volunteers Overseas
HVO volunteers train local health care providers, giving them the knowledge
and skills to make a difference in their own communities.
- Operation Crossroads
The Africa Program focuses on development projects in seven to twelve African
countries each summer.
Career Opportunities
in Africa
- Employment
in Africa
Listings of
employment opportunities in Africa
- Africa Guide Listings to Work in Africa
Work in Africa,
whether it be Voluntary, IT, Hotel & Hospitality, Tourism, Game Wardens
or Rangers, Conservation, Civil Engineering etc.
- Careers in Africa
Global Career Company
is the premier specialist in the recruitment of graduates and professionals
into emerging markets world-wide. Our aim is simply to connect top international
recruiters with highly educated, internationally oriented individuals.
Organizations
which focus on International, Human Rights and/or Development Issues
- Center
for Concern
Through research, analysis, networking, public education and advocacy,
the Center works to advance more just, sustainable and authentically human
development for all, especially for the marginalized and those in poverty.
- Project Concern
Project Concern International provides parents and our worldwide partners
with with training, support and care crucial to protecting the well-being
of children and families.
- Pearson Peacekeeper Centre
an internationally
recognized peace operations training centre, which supports Canada's contribution to world peace
and security
- Refugees International
Refugees International
generates lifesaving humanitarian assistance and protection for displaced
people around the world, and works to end the conditions that create displacement.
- World Resources
Institute
WRI is an environmental
research and policy organization that creates solutions to protect the planet
and improve people’s lives
- Women, Law and Development International
WLDI is a women's
human rights organization.
- Center for Global Development
The Center
for Global Development is dedicated to reducing global poverty and inequality
through policy-oriented research and active engagement on development issues
with the policy community and the public.
- Global Exchange
Global Exchange
is an international human rights organization dedicated to promoting environmental,
political and social justice.
- International Development Exchange
IDEX is a US-based
organization working for economic justice among low income communities in
eight countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America
- Advance Africa
Advance
Africa uses a holistic approach to strengthen family planning/reproductive
health (FP/RH) services.
- Global Fund for Women
The Global
Fund for Women is a grant making foundation supporting women’s human
rights organizations around the world.
- Human Rights Watch
Human Rights Watch
is dedicated to protecting the human rights of people around the world
- Amnesty International
Amnesty International
(AI) is a worldwide movement of people who campaign for internationally
recognized human rights
- Care
CARE seeks a world of hope, tolerance and social justice, where poverty
has been overcome and people live in dignity and security
- CUSO
CUSO works primarily with local, non-government groups overseas.
- Freedom From Hunger
Freedom from Hunger brings innovative and sustainable self-help solutions
to the fight against chronic hunger and poverty.
- International Rescue Committee
The International Rescue Committee is among the world's largest
non-profit, non-sectarian, voluntary agency providing assistance to refugees,
displaced persons and others fleeing persecution and violent conflict.
- Interplast, Inc.
Interplast is a 35-year-old nonprofit organization that
provides free reconstructive plastic surgery for needy children and adults
in developing countries.
- Hesperian Foundation
The Hesperian Foundation is a non-profit publisher of books and newsletters
for community-based health care.
- Madre
MADRE is an international women’s human rights organization that works
in partnership with women’s community-based groups in conflict areas
worldwide.
- Oxfam
Oxfam International is a confederation of 12 organizations working together
in more than 100 countries to find lasting solutions to poverty, suffering
and injustice.
- Save The Children
Their approach - working with families to define and solve the problems
their children and communities face and utilizing a broad array of strategies
to ensure self-sufficiency - is the cornerstone of all Save the Children's
programs
- Seva
Seva is a donor-supported non-profit foundation building partnerships to
respond to locally defined problems with culturally sustainable solutions
throughout the world.
- World University Service of Canada
We link governments, non-governmental organizations and institutions, and
community-based organizations with Canadian expertise, services, and resources
to strengthen capacity and develop local potential.
International
Research and Policy Institutes
Government Agencies
working in International Policy
Organizations Focusing
on Development Work in Specific (non-African) Regions
- AmeriCorps
AmeriCorps is a network of national service programs that engage more than
50,000 Americans each year in intensive service to meet critical needs in
education, public safety, health, and the environment.
- Asia Foundation
The Asia Foundation is a non-profit, non-governmentalorganization committed
to the development of a peaceful, prosperous, and open Asia-Pacific region.
- Amigos de las Americas
AMIGOS is a
non-profit organization that provides exceptional leadership training and
volunteer service opportunities in the United States and Latin America.
Religious Organizations'
Development Work
- Bahai International Community
From the point of view of
social and economic development, the most interesting feature of Bahá'í
community life is its unique consultative system.
- Catholic Relief Services
Catholic Relief
Services was founded in 1943 by the Catholic Bishops of the United States to assist the poor and disadvantaged
outside the country.
- American Friends Service Committee (AFSC)
The American
Friends Service Committee, a Quaker organization, carries out service, development,
social justice, and peace programs throughout the world.
- Christian Reformed World Relief Committee
The Christian Reformed World Relief Committee (CRWRC) is a relief, development,
and educational ministry supported by the Christian Reformed Church in North
America.
- Christian Children’s Fund,
Inc.
Christian Children's Fund currently assists more than 4.6 million children
and families in over 30 countries, including the United States, regardless
of race, creed, nationality or gender.
- Frontier Internship In Mission
Founded in 1960, Frontier Internship in Mission ( FIM ) has organized new
forms of mission and theological reflection and has established mutual partnerships
between religious communities and community-based organizations that express
a common commitment to justice and liberation.
- God’s Child Project
The GOD'S CHILD Community, are benefactors, friends, volunteers, and children
joined together to assist God's poorest children in their educational, social,
physical, and spiritual growth.
- Heifer Project International
Heifer animals (and training in their care) offer hungry families around
the world a way to feed themselves and become self-reliant.
- Jesuit Volunteers International
Jesuit Volunteers serve the homeless, the unemployed, refugees, people with
AIDS, the elderly, street youth, abused women and children, the mentally
ill and the developmentally disabled.
- Mennonite Central Committee
Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) is a relief, service, and peace agency
of the North American Mennonite and Brethren in Christ churches. MCC reflects
the biblical call to care for the hungry and thirsty, the stranger, the
sick and those in prison.
- Salvation Army
Its mission is to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ and to meet human needs
in His name without discrimination.
- Tear Fund
The purpose of Tearfund is to serve Jesus Christ by enabling those who share
evanglical Christian beliefs to bring good news to the poor.
- Unitarian Universalist Service Committee
Grounded in Unitarian Universalist principles that affirm the worth, dignity
and human rights of every person, and the interdependence of all life, the
Unitarian Universalist Service Committee is a voluntary, nonsectarian organization
working to advance justice throughout the world.
Sites with volunteer job listings
and information regarding nonprofits
St.
Vincent Pallotti Center
Internet
Nonprofit Center
Association of Voluntary Service Organisations
OpportunityKnocks.org
Job/Volunteer Links